Christmas Day 2009 — Purefoods TJ Giants ends 2009 with a win over Burger King 85-74, Team Captain Kerby Raymundo led Purefoods with 19 points and James Yap contributed 17 points for the Giants. The defense of Purefoods held the Whoppers to just 6 points at the last 6 minutes of the game, Rookie of the Year candidate Rico Maierhofer had 10 points and 6 rebounds ending his streak of lackluster games the last few games.

Purefoods ends the year with 9 wins and 6 losses with three more games to go in the double elimination phase of the KFC-PBA Philippine Cup. (4 games actually including the game on Jan. 6 vs Smart Gilas, which is just an exhibition game)